Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Veduta dell'avanzo laterale del Portico che circondava la Cella del Tempio di Antonino Pio, inoggi la Dogana di Terra
Veduta dellavanzo laterale del Portico che circondava la Cella del Tempio di Antonino Pio, inoggi la Dogana di Terra
Item Information
- Title:
- Veduta dell'avanzo laterale del Portico che circondava la Cella del Tempio di Antonino Pio, inoggi la Dogana di Terra
- Title (translated):
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View of the remains of the side colonnade of the Temple of Antonius Pius, now the Customs House
- Title (alt.):
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XIII. Fig. II. Veduta dell'avanzo laterale del Portico che circondava la Cella del Tempio di Antonino Pio, inoggi la Dogana di Terra
- Description:
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Actually the Temple of the Divine Hadrian, now the Roman stock exchange.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 1: Piranesi Antichità Romane: Opera del Cavaliere > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Roman temples
Colonnades
Stock exchanges
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome
Temple of Hadrian
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 21 cm, on sheet 61 x 46 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z6040m85z
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 303
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 13, figure 2
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
- Notes (date):
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Dates supplied by cataloger from catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1756. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The twenty-nine volumes in Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris from 1835-1837.
- Notes (citation):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signature, lower right. Lettered with figure information, plate upper right: Fig. II. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 302
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.01
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol01_013a
- Barcode:
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36666004386328
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